Personal Audio News

Donate new or gently used CDs and portable CD players and we, at no fee, will then distribute them to hospitals and health care facilities in hopes of building CD libraries so patients may check music in and out.

My colleague, Mark Bialczak has an item about a Music Heals CNY drive to collect gently-used music CDs and/or portable CD players.

Way back in my day, I was excited just to have the anti-skip technology on my Walkman CD player.

Click a picture to enter the Design Review slideshow. It's not easy for Sony. For decades, Sony's Walkman devices dominated the personal audio market with great and popular products.

Portability in a very small package has finally arrived to the growing selection of HD Radio receivers.

If you are considering buying an electronic gift for a teen in your life this Christmas, this list is for you! Most teens are green with envy when they see their friends with the latest new electronic gadget or digital gizmo.

I've gotta hand it to SanDisk. The company doesn't shy away from honesty. Recently, a handful of Sansa Clip users reactivated a forum topic having to do with apparent pitch issues on the device whereby music plays back ever-so-slightly slower than normal.

How is this for sending the right message? Canada's big electronics retailer, now owned by Best Buy, sells a replacement plan that tells customers NOT to repair.

Sony NWZ-W202 Walkman is an inspiring 2GB MP3 player/earphone combo, that Sony has come out with in its personal audio line.

From death comes life, and from life comes death. This cycle can be found in biology, religion, physics and even economics.

Angela Williams ultimate goal is to inspire students to love reading. The Richlands Primary School first grade teacher is seeing results in her students through her "I Hear You" project.

It was a sad day when I reviewed the second-gen Sony S-Series Walkman . We expected a worthy successor to this fantastic MP3 player and instead were met with a mere shadow of the device and its former glory.

Sony goes back to its roots: After trying to copy Apple's touch screen, Sony has gone back to basics with the latest addition to the A-Series Walkman line, the NW-A840 series.

Once upon a time, my daughter was listening to this on a family car trip - long before the advent of iPods.

On Sept. 8, the Polk School District Board of Education approved a new cell phone and electronic use procedure.

Sony has released a couple more Walkmans for the masses - the A840 and the S740.

European Union begins antitrust probe of Oracle's acquisition of Sun - The Wall Street Journal reports that uncertainty over Sun's future has opened up the server and Java vendor's customers to examining and buying alternatives from IBM, H-P, Dell and other large, seemingly more stable firms.

He set out to build his own, posting a how-to that documents his project . The custom paperboard case contains a portable CD player, two portable speakers with amplifier, and a pull-string switch to turn it on and off.

Apparently, Disney does not have a problem with this. Yes, it's true: I've managed to get my grubby little mitts on Sony's new E- and S-Series Walkman MP3 players.

This is a pretty nerdy video, but also very cool. Some astronauts discovered that a portable CD player with a spinning disc in it is significantly more stable than one that is stopped.